how to say “point of view” in Hebrew
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In 1949, my grandparents helped found a kibbutz near modern-day Modiin. The founders called it תחיה – basically, resurrection, since this was one of many Jewish settlements rising up in Israel only a few years after near-total destruction in Europe. In the coming years the kibbutz gave way to another agricultural settlement, and the standard…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרצוף-תשעה-באב-#.m4a” /]פַּרְצוּף תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב Hebrew has two words for face – the biblical פנים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרצוף-תשעה-באב-#.m4a” /], and a later word borrowed from Greek, פרצוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרצוף-תשעה-באב-#.m4a” /]. The latter word helps make up this Hebrew expression: פרצוף תשעה באב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/פרצוף-תשעה-באב-#.m4a” /] – a sad face, or literally, a face of Tisha B’Av. Why Tisha B’Av? Because this is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/רכבת-מהירה-#.m4a” /]רַכֶּבֶת מְהִירָה If you know some basic Hebrew, you probably know the word for fast – מהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/רכבת-מהירה-#.m4a” /]. מהר means fast in the sense of quickly. It’s an adverb, so you can say הוא הולך מהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/רכבת-מהירה-#.m4a” /] – he walks fast, he’s doing something fast. But the word for fast the adjective – to describe a thing – is…
having trouble seeing the print? מִפְגָּשׁ Conversational Hebrew Starting Soon… Also in Modiin! REGISTER NOW! See review material at the end of today’s dose! Last week we defined the Hebrew word מִפְגָּשׁ as referring to an informal meeting or a gathering of friends. There’s another, more dramatic meaning to the word: encounter. …
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/בכנות-#.m4a” /]בְּכֵנוּת, בְּכֵּנוּת The Hebrew word for honesty is כנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/בכנות-#.m4a” /], so honestly – or with honesty – is בכנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/בכנות-#.m4a” /]. While according to the rules of Hebrew grammar the כ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/בכנות-#.m4a” /] in the word should be pronounced as a coarse kh sound, the vast majority of Israelis pronounce it with a hard k…